25 Oct 2023

Australia: Billionaire tapes, Albanese in US, Cheng Lei speaks

From Nine To Noon, 9:54 am on 25 October 2023
File photo: Anthony Pratt speaks at the forum organized by the Wall Street Journal at the USDA headquarters in the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2018.

File photo: Anthony Pratt speaks at the forum organized by the Wall Street Journal at the USDA headquarters in the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2018. Photo: Tom Witham via Wikipedia

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the billionaire paper packaging baron Anthony Pratt being centre of a growing scandal over leaked audio recordings that reveal his private comments about some high profile people, including former US President Donald Trump and King Charles.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Washington DC, but his plans have been interrupted by ructions on the Hill.

Australian journalist  Cheng Lei has given her first media interviews since being released from a Chinese jail two weeks ago and what's caused a 10-year-old Aussie pop tune to make the top of the charts?

Karen Middleton is chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper